All have been rousted from peaceful lives in settings that wouldn’t stand out in Western Europe — and are going to war.
Since a separatist insurgency broke out in eastern Ukraine in March, entire swaths of Ukrainian society — either through a government summons or their own patriotism — have suddenly been thrust into battle, many of them with little or no combat experience.
First I accepted, but the fear stays with you, said Lavrienko, the director, who never saw combat as a radio operator during obligatory military service more than a decade ago.
In the early days of fighting, the army suffered …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
